CLASS 40 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Triptolemus, Kykeon, Homeric Hymns
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Orpheus = singer; plays lyre which charms you to different state of consciousness. Eurydice died and gone down to underworld but hasn"t crossed river styx. If orpheus went to go get her and doesn"t look back, she can come back to the living but he looks back can"t overcome death. Mystery cults are about empathy and feeling. Grain thought to have been invented at a site called eleusis and spread across the world by. Persephone = demeter"s daughter who is married to hades. Demeter gets mad and makes crops stop growing. Homeric hymn to demeter (line 270 & line 476) Queen metaneira asks demeter to take care of son demophoon turns him into a god by. Withdrawal and return pattern : when god gets angry and disappears, all nature perishes and holding him in divine fire gods also starve (ex. Mirthless rock where demeter supposedly sat and mourned persephone.
